Chap. 293.—An ACT to Amend the Act passed December 16th, 1852,
Incorporating the Richmond and Charlottesville Turnpike Company.

Ia force March 23, 1872.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the second section of the act entitled an act to amend the act
passed December sixteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-two,
incorporating a company to construct a graded or plank road
from Richmond to some point at or near Charlottesville, shall
be and is hereby re-enacted and amended, so that the said
section, as re-enacted with such amendment, shall read as
follows:

The said books shall be opened and the subscriptions re-
ceived in the manner provided by the Code of Virginia pre-
scribing general regulations for turnpike companies; and when
five hundred shares of the said capital stock shall have been
subscribed, the subscribers, their executors and assigns, shall
be and are hereby incorporated into a body politic and corpo-
rate, by the name and style of “Richmond and Charlottesville
Turnpike Company; but it shall not be lawful for the said
Richmond and Charlottesville Turnpike Company hereafter to
demand or receive any tolls until the sections of said turnpike
shall have first been received by the proper county court, and
the authority to receive tolls obtained, according to the eighth
section of chapter sixty-one of the Code of eighteen hundred
and sixty, and until the said company have, in all other respects,
complied with the law governing turnpikes in the aforesaid
Code; tle said company being declared subject to all the pro
visions and entitled to all the benefits of the aforesaid Code:
provided, that no person shall be subject to fine or other
penalty for having refused to pay the tolls demanded before
the passage of this act; nor shall the company be subject to
prosecution for any violation.of the general law above men.
tioned prior to the passage of this act: provided further, that
nothing herein contained shall affect any claim which the said
company may have against any person for tolls for the use of
said road prior to the passage of this act. Nothing in this
act shall be construed to repeal or interfere in any manner
with an act to incorporate the Richmond and Henrico Railroad,
Turnpike and Graded Road Company, approved March thirty-

i first, eighteen hundred and seventy-one.

— Section sixth of an act passed February twenty-sixth, eigh-
teen hundred and fifty-six, is hereby repealed.

2. This act shall be in force from its passaze.